Kenyan players set for new one-year contracts

Cricket Kenya has accepted to offer new one-year contracts to the national team's players as part of a deal to settle a long and bitter dispute, officials said on Thursday.

Chief executive Tom Sears said the board had withdrawn its decision to implement a revised contract system which the players refused to sign.

Under the new format the players were to be given reduced three-month contracts to ensure the improvement in their performances after Kenya's dismal showing at the 2011 World Cup in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka earlier this year.

The current central contracts expired on May 31 and the players have refused to start training for next month's inaugural East African Premier league in Uganda, until the issue is resolved.

Meanwhile former international batsman Alpesh Vadher has been named as the new chairman of selectors. He will be in charge of the new panel to select the players to the national team, along with the coach and captain who are yet to be named.

Vadher was a member of the team that reached the semi-finals of the 2003 World Cup in South Africa.